Re: Collation problem? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Gunnar \"Nick\" Bluth
Subject Re: Collation problem?
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In response to Collation problem?  (Bjørn T Johansen <btj@havleik.no>)
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Am 26.04.2015 um 10:02 schrieb Bjørn T Johansen:
> My databases looks like this...:
>
>
> List of databases Name     |    Owner     | Encoding |   Collate
> |    Ctype    |   Access privileges
> --------------+--------------+----------+-------------+-------------+-
- ----------------------
>
>
dbname | owner        | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
> .......
>
>
> And my problem is that I am using Norwegian in some tables and when
> using order by the sort order is not correct for the Norwegian
> letters.. So my guestion is if it is possible to get the correct
> sort order without recreating all my databases or initialize
> PGSQL?
>
Sure (i.e., if you're on a half recent version):

ALTER TABLE <yourtable> ALTER COLUMN <yourcolumn> COLLATE <collation>


http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-altertable.html

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